“• • • Military history is the story of the terrible murder of beautiful plans by ugly facts.” — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“Underestimation of nonconventional units or a guerrilla enemy by regular forces is a cardinal military sin.” — Howard R. Simpson Copy Share Image
“Gangs have had connections to the U.S. Military in every period since the founding of the country.” — Carter F. Smith Copy Share Image
“Military Veterans have become gang members since the late 1700s.” — Carter F. Smith Copy Share Image
House passes #dadt (don't ask don't tell) repeal. A step fwd on equality 4 gay Americans in military. History will judge those… — Frank Pallone Copy Share Image
All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The first military-trained gang member was Samuel Mason, leader of the Mason gang of river pirates operating along the Ohio River from… — Carter F. Smith Copy Share Image
“I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about… — Elle Thornton Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, when they are on our side, we usually refer to them as guerrillas or partisans or freedom fighters. When they, the… — Dick Couch Copy Share Image
“Naval heroes are seldom immodest, but soldiers quite often are. It is said of one gallant general that publication of his book… — John Colville Copy Share Image
Military history is essential to understanding any history and, moreover, is a terrifying and sobering study in the realities of human nature… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me, to… — Gaddafi Copy Share Image
“France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me… — William Arthur Sirmon Copy Share Image
“U-boats were on the run. Radar, sonar, aircraft, and new tactics by American and British destroyers had turned predators into prey. The… — Tom Young Copy Share Image
In the tradition of Black Hawk Down, Malcolm MacPherson vividly brings to life this harrowing story of courage, pathos, and war at… — Jay Winik Copy Share Image
I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good… — David Cheriton Copy Share Image
“No one would deny that all wars and battles are regrettable acts of human folly, causing unjustifiable agony and distress to combatants… — David G. Chandler Copy Share Image
“I climbed over the machine gun and into the Casspir. Clearing my throat respectfully, I mentioned these minor points to Brand, wondering… — Jim Hooper Copy Share Image
“Jones described what followed in his official report: All the oil, the tanks, barrels,engines for pumping, engine-houses, and wagons- in a word,… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
“In this world, anything is possible. The United States might win a future war relying solely on air power for the first… — Frederick Kagan Copy Share Image
“For more than a decade, the United States had been giving large-scale military aid to the French colonialists, and then to the… — Edward S. Greenberg Copy Share Image
“My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
“The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“The celebrated maxim of the Romans, not to undertake two great wars at the same time, is so well known and so… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
“There have been ample opportunities since 1945 to show that material superiority in war is not enough if the will to fight… — Richard Overy Copy Share Image
“If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?” — Ryan Goodrich Copy Share Image
“On weekends his idea of rest was to read military history aloud to his daughters.” — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
